Ravn Rock
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| Waters | Neptunes Bellows ( Deception Island ) | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 0 ′ S , 60 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 2.5 m below sea level | |
The Ravn rock is about washed up from the sea cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in the middle of the Neptunes Bellows , the entrance to Port Foster on Deception Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. August Christensen, captain of the Norwegian whaler Vesterlide , who operated in the waters around Deception Island in 1908 and 1909, named it after its sister ship the Ravn .
Web links
- Ravn Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ravn Rock on geographic.org (English)